A failure of left temporal cortex to specialize for language is an early emerging and fundamental property of autism

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 949-960

  Eyler, Lisa T ^a,b   Pierce, Karen ^a,c   Courchesne, Eric ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; functional magnetic resonance imaging; language; sleep; temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRECUNEUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84857513330     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr364     Document Type: Article

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